_The veracity of this manuscript is attested by us_,
WM. HOGARTH.
SAML. SCOTT.
WM. TOTHALL.
JNO. THORNHILL.
_London, May 27, 1732. Accompt of Disbursements for Messieurs Hogarth
and Co. viz._
£. _s._ _d._
To paid at the Dark-house, Billingsgate 0 0 8½
To paid for a pint of Geneva Hollands 0 1 0
To paid waterman to Gravesend 0 5 0
To paid barber ditto 0 0 10
To paid for breakfast at ditto 0 2 2
To paid for beer on the road to Rochester 0 0 9
To paid for shrimps at Chatham 0 0 9
To paid at the gunnery and dock 0 1 6
To paid bill at Rochester 1 7 3
28. To gave at Upnor for information 0 0 3
To paid at the Smack at ditto 0 4 3
To paid at Hoo 0 1 8
To paid at Stoke 0 11 6
29. To paid at Mother Hubbard’s at Grain 0 3 0
To paid for passage over to Sheerness 0 2 10
To paid for lobsters at Queenborough 0 1 6
To paid for two pots of beer to treat the
sexton 0 0 6
To paid for dinner, &c. 0 6 6
To charity gave the sailors 0 1 0
30. To paid for lodgings and maid 0 4 6
To paid for breakfast 0 2 6
To paid for washing shirts 0 1 8
To paid at Minster 0 9 2
To paid at Sheerness 0 1 3
To paid for a boat to Gravesend 0 7 0
31. To paid barber at ditto 0 1 2
To paid for sundry at ditto 1 0 3½
To paid for passage to Somerset House 0 5 6
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£ 6 6 0
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_Vouchers produced, examined, and allowed,
Per_ E. FORREST.
WM. HOGARTH.
SAML. SCOTT.
JNO. THORNHILL.
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The Rev. Mr. Gostling’s version bore the same title and motto as the
prose Tour, with this addition,--“Imitated in _Hudibrasticks_, by one
well acquainted with some of the Travellers, and of the places here
celebrated, with liberty of some additions.” It is subjoined; viz.